New Macbook Pro 13 specs?

dsciel · Jun 4, 2012, 10:30 PM

Saw this specs from a Chinese website claiming to be the new specs for Macbook Pro 13'

Hope it is fake because I just sold my macbook pro and waiting for a Retina and Quad Core 13 inch model.......

younker · Jun 4, 2012, 10:32 PM

This is fake. Don't trust this.

pgiguere1 · Jun 4, 2012, 10:47 PM

Link?

mikeo007 · Jun 4, 2012, 10:49 PM

I hope not, but this wouldn't surprise me.

pgiguere1 · Jun 4, 2012, 11:00 PM

I just played with effects in Photoshop in hope of proving this was shopped. Unfortunately, it looks very real and some details like the fact that the label SKU (bottom right) and weight (2.06kg instead of 2.04kg) are slightly different make it look real

.

I'd like to be proved this is an elaborate fake, but it's not looking good. Perhaps Apple would release only a redesigned 15" and keep the current 13" for a generation until the 13" MBA finally replaces it, kind of like the white MacBook that they kept alongside the Aluminium MacBook introduced in 2008.

mikeo007 · Jun 4, 2012, 11:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pgiguere1

Image

I just played with effects in Photoshop in hope of proving this was shopped. Unfortunately, it looks very real and some details like the fact that the label SKU (bottom right) and weight (2.06kg instead of 2.04kg) are slightly different make it look real

.

I'd like to be proved this is an elaborate fake, but it's not looking good. Perhaps Apple would release only a redesigned 15" and keep the current 13" for a generation until the 13" MBA finally replaces it, kind of like the white MacBook that they kept alongside the Aluminium MacBook introduced in 2008.

Or maybe they trolled everyone...
I know people shouldn't have gotten their hopes up since Apple never promised anything, but...it's pretty disappointing if this is just another spec bump Macbook year, which it seems this may be.

pgiguere1 · Jun 4, 2012, 11:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mikeo007

Or maybe they trolled everyone...
I know people shouldn't have gotten their hopes up since Apple never promised anything, but...it's pretty disappointing if this is just another spec bump Macbook year, which it seems this may be.

Yup, seems like last year all again. I remember the huge disappointment after several claimed leaks of fake specs. The difference this year however is that Bloomberg "confirmed" it.

Man, I really hope this is just the new "MacBook" that is a rebranded old 13" MBP design with a new 999$ price tag.

jgc · Jun 4, 2012, 11:11 PM

SuperDrive and Ethernet? I really hope this isn't real. After setting my mind on the 13" Air, I saw a few thin MBP mock-ups and fell in love with all of them. It would be disappointing to see no major change whatsoever.

DrKockter · Jun 4, 2012, 11:18 PM

links or it didnt happen

LOL i wouldnt be surprised if apple decided to, i guess "Screw us" over AGAIN but none the less, lets hold our breath till the 11th.

personally i spent way to much on my 2011 macbook. SSD upgrades and acessories, the question u gotta ask urself is when the new ones are released, are u really gonna be doing anything different on the new one then the current one ur using? will it make it that mcuh better experience?

lets find out on the 11th lol

Blu-Ray · Jun 4, 2012, 11:20 PM

Uh oh....

I just hope that the 15" redesign rumor comes through still since that is what I'm planning on getting.

Jamesesesesess · Jun 5, 2012, 12:01 AM

Do you know how easy that is to fake? I could do that in Photoshop in 10 minutes.

dsciel · Jun 5, 2012, 12:40 AM

I got the picture from another chinese forum called "weiphone."

I really hope the picture is fake too because i really want a quad core 13 inch laptop...

chanyitian · Jun 5, 2012, 12:45 AM

I hope the Macbook Pro gets redesigned and thinner. I see a future where MBPs are replaced by MBAs but I dont think that it will happen this year.

mac jones · Jun 5, 2012, 12:52 AM

Clone probably.

CountSessine · Jun 5, 2012, 12:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jamesesesesess

Do you know how easy that is to fake? I could do that in Photoshop in 10 minutes.

Maybe, maybe not? The noise in the photo looks pretty uniform. To my eyes, there's nothing about it that looks really fake.

Here's a challenge - can you take that photo, edit it so that the specs are a bit more impressive, and then post the results?

Can anyone? Surely on a Mac-oriented forum there has to be some Photoshop wizard who could do this?

diamond3 · Jun 5, 2012, 01:14 AM

I'm no expert on this sort of thing, but who's to say the original photo wasn't high quality, they made the adjustments and then decreased the quality to hide the changes?

ssn637 · Jun 5, 2012, 01:34 AM

I'd be embarrassed to present that at the WWDC.

CountSessine · Jun 5, 2012, 01:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dsciel

I got the picture from another chinese forum called "weiphone."

I really hope the picture is fake too because i really want a quad core 13 inch laptop...

Had a look at that site - do you know of any other interesting Chinese Mac sites? I don't know Chinese but the Chrome translator seemed to work well enough to minimally navigate.

AAPLGeek · Jun 5, 2012, 01:45 AM

Sadly this looks very real to me. I can tell from some of the pixels...

CountSessine · Jun 5, 2012, 01:53 AM

Found it!

http://bbs.weiphone.com/read-htm-tid-4835436.html

If you're using Chrome, it'll translate the simplified Chinese to English (although there are peculiarities - like Apple's "thunder and lightning" connector - machine translation isn't perfect

)

The funny thing is, they claim that it was a friend in the US, working at Apple that snapped the photo.

Quote:

Friend inside Apple in the United States has been determined to tell me, and showed me a printed configure a single photo. 13-inch PRO will have an Ivy 2.5G I5 processor, 1600 DDR3 memory, is still exactly the same as the 1280X800 resolution, appearance, and the MD313! 15 and 13 almost, so look forward to the thinning of the retina friends wash sleep, do not wait. Originally I was looking forward to the retina of the new PRO, it now appears, hey. . . . . . . . . . . In addition, I did not understand how several people actually said 13 PRO resolution standard is 1440X900. See you is not used 13PRO this man do not trouble in reply. In order to popularize next to you, I Quguan network cut a the 13PRO configuration of Figure you look at it.

CountSessine · Jun 5, 2012, 02:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by diamond3

I'm no expert on this sort of thing, but who's to say the original photo wasn't high quality, they made the adjustments and then decreased the quality to hide the changes?

Here's a nice, big, hi-res one to work with, if anyone wants to try. Can anyone produce a 'fake' as nice as the one posted here?

http://i.imgur.com/XZBMv

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Pretty weak sauce if this is what we're getting, though. Hopefully the 15" is better.

iamdavekennedy · Jun 5, 2012, 02:15 AM

Firstly, that is not a comp, it's a real shot image, so comparing the grain etc isn't really going to get us anywhere.

Secondly, are we all so used to digital everything now that we're overlooking the simple task of printing out a self designed image and shooting it?

That seems the most likely scenario here, however, that said I do think that is a feasible spec bump, perhaps there hasn't been enough time to test retina displays with the new specs we are all hoping for to ensure they don't suffer more screen discolouration returns in the next six months.

Regardless, I know I'll be buying an iMac and 13" MBP come release day, but the spec will only differentiate whether or not I go for a new 21.5" iMac or a refurb 27".

This site would be ever so boring if we didn't all get over-hyped and every prediction we had was right!

neilpryde23 · Jun 5, 2012, 02:23 AM

This would be a pretty disappointing upgrade after all the hype but then again, all the reports have only discussed the 15" MBP. If nothing else, at least the specs in the picture include 2 USB 3.0 ports.

iamdavekennedy · Jun 5, 2012, 02:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by neilpryde23

This would be a pretty disappointing upgrade after all the hype but then again, all the reports have only discussed the 15" MBP. If nothing else, at least the specs in the picture include 2 USB 3.0 ports.

Considering I'm a designer struggling to work on a 2006 Mac Mini at the moment due to my 2010 MBP giving me an electric shock and frying itself in the process a month or so ago (thankfully the house insurance covered me and I've got a nice cheque for £1600 to make me feel better) anything will feel like a sufficient upgrade from the Mini at this stage! Haha!

iamdavekennedy · 03:13 AM

Scrap that; This is a pointless exercise, making a fake and shooting it is a pretty easy and effortless affair, I was going to try but instead I'm going to wait one week and see what happens, like I've mentioned before, the rumoured spec according to this post is still enough of a bump for me to upgrade! Happy shopping folks.

Jun 4, 2012, 10:30 PM	#1
dsciel macrumors regular Join Date: Jul 2011	New Macbook Pro 13 specs? Saw this specs from a Chinese website claiming to be the new specs for Macbook Pro 13' Hope it is fake because I just sold my macbook pro and waiting for a Retina and Quad Core 13 inch model....... Attached Thumbnails
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Jun 4, 2012, 10:32 PM	#2
younker macrumors member Join Date: Dec 2006	This is fake. Don't trust this.
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Jun 4, 2012, 10:49 PM	#4
mikeo007 macrumors 65816 Join Date: Mar 2010	I hope not, but this wouldn't surprise me. __________________ iPhone 5 -:- iPad 3 -:- 2010 MacBook Pro 13"
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Jun 4, 2012, 11:00 PM	#5
pgiguere1 macrumors 65816 Join Date: May 2009 Location: Montreal, Canada	I just played with effects in Photoshop in hope of proving this was shopped. Unfortunately, it looks very real and some details like the fact that the label SKU (bottom right) and weight (2.06kg instead of 2.04kg) are slightly different make it look real . I'd like to be proved this is an elaborate fake, but it's not looking good. Perhaps Apple would release only a redesigned 15" and keep the current 13" for a generation until the 13" MBA finally replaces it, kind of like the white MacBook that they kept alongside the Aluminium MacBook introduced in 2008.
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Jun 4, 2012, 11:20 PM	#10
Blu-Ray macrumors regular Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Colorado	Uh oh.... I just hope that the 15" redesign rumor comes through still since that is what I'm planning on getting. __________________ If a MOD sees this, feel free to change my username to BagOfHurt.
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Jun 4, 2012, 10:47 PM	#3
pgiguere1 macrumors 65816 Join Date: May 2009 Location: Montreal, Canada	Link?
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Jun 4, 2012, 11:11 PM	#8
jgc macrumors regular Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Canada	SuperDrive and Ethernet? I really hope this isn't real. After setting my mind on the 13" Air, I saw a few thin MBP mock-ups and fell in love with all of them. It would be disappointing to see no major change whatsoever.
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Jun 4, 2012, 11:18 PM	#9
DrKockter Banned Join Date: Jun 2012	links or it didnt happen LOL i wouldnt be surprised if apple decided to, i guess "Screw us" over AGAIN but none the less, lets hold our breath till the 11th. personally i spent way to much on my 2011 macbook. SSD upgrades and acessories, the question u gotta ask urself is when the new ones are released, are u really gonna be doing anything different on the new one then the current one ur using? will it make it that mcuh better experience? lets find out on the 11th lol
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Jun 5, 2012, 12:01 AM	#11
Jamesesesesess macrumors 6502 Join Date: Nov 2011	Do you know how easy that is to fake? I could do that in Photoshop in 10 minutes.
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Jun 5, 2012, 12:40 AM	#12
dsciel Thread Starter macrumors regular Join Date: Jul 2011	I got the picture from another chinese forum called "weiphone." I really hope the picture is fake too because i really want a quad core 13 inch laptop...
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Jun 5, 2012, 12:45 AM	#13
chanyitian macrumors regular Join Date: Jun 2012	I hope the Macbook Pro gets redesigned and thinner. I see a future where MBPs are replaced by MBAs but I dont think that it will happen this year.
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Jun 5, 2012, 12:52 AM	#14
mac jones macrumors 68040 Join Date: Apr 2006	Clone probably.
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Jun 5, 2012, 01:14 AM	#16
diamond3 macrumors 6502a Join Date: Oct 2005	I'm no expert on this sort of thing, but who's to say the original photo wasn't high quality, they made the adjustments and then decreased the quality to hide the changes?
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Jun 5, 2012, 01:34 AM	#17
ssn637 macrumors 6502 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Switzerland	I'd be embarrassed to present that at the WWDC.
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Jun 5, 2012, 01:45 AM	#19
AAPLGeek macrumors member Join Date: Nov 2009	Sadly this looks very real to me. I can tell from some of the pixels...
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Jun 5, 2012, 02:15 AM	#22
iamdavekennedy macrumors regular Join Date: May 2012 Location: London / Belfast	Firstly, that is not a comp, it's a real shot image, so comparing the grain etc isn't really going to get us anywhere. Secondly, are we all so used to digital everything now that we're overlooking the simple task of printing out a self designed image and shooting it? That seems the most likely scenario here, however, that said I do think that is a feasible spec bump, perhaps there hasn't been enough time to test retina displays with the new specs we are all hoping for to ensure they don't suffer more screen discolouration returns in the next six months. Regardless, I know I'll be buying an iMac and 13" MBP come release day, but the spec will only differentiate whether or not I go for a new 21.5" iMac or a refurb 27". This site would be ever so boring if we didn't all get over-hyped and every prediction we had was right!
	40

Jun 5, 2012, 02:23 AM	#23
neilpryde23 macrumors regular Join Date: Nov 2011	This would be a pretty disappointing upgrade after all the hype but then again, all the reports have only discussed the 15" MBP. If nothing else, at least the specs in the picture include 2 USB 3.0 ports.
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Jun 5, 2012, 02:56 AM	#25
iamdavekennedy macrumors regular Join Date: May 2012 Location: London / Belfast	Scrap that; This is a pointless exercise, making a fake and shooting it is a pretty easy and effortless affair, I was going to try but instead I'm going to wait one week and see what happens, like I've mentioned before, the rumoured spec according to this post is still enough of a bump for me to upgrade! Happy shopping folks. Last edited by iamdavekennedy; Jun 5, 2012 at 03:13 AM.
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